"Your accent says: I did not start here.
And that is interesting."
via this FB post on accent discrimination in France www.facebook.com/groups/15859...

a close up of a person 's face with a light shining through it . Alt: It’s the Gunna writing straight fire gif

Learning cursive:
-allows you to sign your soul away to the devil in blood
-helps with deciphering those fancy, webdings-esque fonts
-has the added benefit of keeping your writings private from nosy, know-nothing kids
-will help politicians sign bills into law again, which hasn’t happened since 2012

Much of Paris is the same. Many cafes in my studio neighborhood ban laptops from front areas, and completely on weekends. Parisians are not keen on people glued to screens, ignoring one another for hours on end in public spaces

In the 1820s, British potters figured out something clever. Americans would pay more for plates with American buildings on them. So factories in Staffordshire, England started cranking out dinner sets decorated with scenes of places they'd never been. Hotels, capitols, canals.

Great list of funding links in France for studios who make all kinds of things -
www.mekanika.io/en/financing...

Art contemporain : "les collectionneurs commencent souvent par une œuvre sur papier" Art Karlsruhe est la deuxième foire d'art contemporain d'Europe. Elle ouvre ce jeudi 5 février et se termine dimanche 8 février : 2700 m2 d'œuvres modernes et contemporaines, 180 galeries de 18 pays. ...

Art Karlsruhe: "Collectors Often Start with Works of Paper"
'The diversity of works on paper is greater [than with other media]. And I have the impression that artists who work with paper are more spontaneous' - Kristian Jarmuschek, director
france3-regions.franceinfo.fr/grand-est/al...

I know, girl. I know.

Ditto to seeing Suzanne Vega posters here in Paris

Not by any means
My soon-to-be Guatemalan sister-in-law has had to postpone her US marriage ceremony (planned for Minneapolis where much of my family lives) to my brother indefinitely

The one big social media habit that we need to all break is going "look at how stupid this is!!" Yeah, we all know. Don't give it oxygen.

‘Her time has come’: did Mondrian owe his success to a cross-dressing lesbian artist who lived in a Cornish cove? Piet Mondrian found fame, fortune and glory with his grid-like paintings lit with basic colours. But did many of his ideas come from Marlow Moss? Our writer celebrates an extraordinary British talent ...

Question: did Mondrian owe his success to a cross-dressing lesbian artist who lived in a Cornish cove?
Réponse: YES! (Il s'agit bien sûr de Marlow Moss)
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

I lived in these neighborhoods aged 20-23, within a few hundred meters of each site. Cannot begin to explain how this institutional violence becomes tangled into memory when it happens on your street, where you greet your neighbors, in the places where you love and fail and build and live your life

Art at Amtrak Art at Amtrak invites artists from New York and New Jersey to create original art specifically for Penn Station.

Today's inspiration: artists commissioned to design public works for stations as part of the Art at Amtrak program @amtrak.com www.amtrak.com/at-the-stati...

‘What a week, huh/ Lemon it’s Wednesday’ 30 rock meme showing a woman in glasses on the top panel and a man below, except if says ‘what a year/ it’s Jan 2nd’

A fascinating artist and life en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Bo...

Cecilia Giménez, the painter who 'botched' the Ecce Homo dies aged 94 The Borja resident, who rose to fame in 2012 for her widely mocked restoration of Elías García Martínez's fresco 'Ecco Homo', has died at the age of 94.

If I was working the NYT end of year death list, I would write this one up so HARD.

Rest in Power Cecilia Giménez, creator of Beast Jesus.
www.euronews.com/culture/2025...

How many painters are there?

Millions and they're all pretty good.

Everybody is creative.

Tony Cokes, Pittsburgh.Isms (still), 2022

Comment établir mes devis ? — Kit de survie du créatif Marronnier ultra-éculé sur les forums et les réseaux sociaux, la question par laquelle tout commence pour un indépendant : comment établir un devis, comment évaluer le tarif d’une prestation ? Prêts ?...

Another site with suggested charges ranging from Paris to the rest of the country takes into account the many costs that go into producing and sharing work
kitdesurvie.metiers-graphiques.fr/articles/com...
it's not been updated for current cost of living so you'll want to add 50percent + (in FR)

Great resource for those working in the visual arts in France. It breaks down charges associated with producing, exhibiting, and sharing artwork in varied contexts
reseau-astre.org/ressources/r...
This particular site is specific for Nouvelle-Aquitaine but can be modified for anywhere in the country

Explorations of Lisbon patterns with Ceramicas Vicente last December. Like many visitors I was mesmerized by the tiles that simultaneously protect and enhance the city's architecture

Finally managed to understand mid-tones when painting ceramic glazes at Ceramicas Vicente, Lisbon, December 2024 by interpreting the same motif over and over www.instagram.com/p/DD0liOsIWG...

Oh would love to see those

"Cobalto / 鎂"
Cobalt blues from my research of the past year:
five centuries over two continents - Sintra, Porto and Lisbon; then Jingdezhen, Macau and Hong Kong

Only now am I catching up with this thread!
Some images from my Azulejo / Chinese tile painting tile research from the past year.
Early tiles in Portugal showed strong links with North African geometric designs. Clay was rolled in a relief pattern then colors are filled in like cloisonné enamel

Newest addition to the bucket list:

OMG beautiful and terrifying. what are they made of?

Thanks for this! Fascinating topic

stained glass window depicting a black christ

'60 yrs ago Wales gifted a commissioned stained glass window to a community in the US city of Birmingham, Alabama, in the aftermath of a bomb that killed four black girls
John Petts visited Alabama and opted to construct a stained-glass image of a Black Christ.'

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wales_W...

A green hardback of Meditations by Marcus Aurelius.

Inside the book an inscription, in beautiful swooping cursive penmanship: To Major R.C. Miller For those moments while you’re waiting for the forecast to verify - a few meditations of another misunderstood genius. Lt. Mac August, ‘56

My father, rooting about his shelves, found a book he’d inherited from his father. Opened it for the first time. Inside an inscription.

My grandfather, Robert C Miller, was a US airforce metrologist. He developed the first tornado forecast. The inscription is during the development of that forecast